Improved detachable stove-pipe clothes-drier



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HIRAMv WHITNEY, OI" CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 91,803, dated .Time 22, 1869.

IMPROVED DETACHABLE STOVEPIPE CLTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

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To all 'whom @1t/may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM WHrrNnY, of Chicago, in the county of Cook,and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in DetachableStove-Pipe Clothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare 4that the followingis Va full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being hadto the aecompanying drawings, and letters marked thereon,lmak ing a partof this description, in which- Fignre l is a perspective representationof my invention.

Figure 2, a broken elevation of the under side, showing how the partsare clamped together.

Figure 3, a broken plan View, showing the form of the joint.

Figure 4, a section, showing how the arms of the drier are held inplace.

The present invention relates to an improvement in that class ofclothes-driers which is attached to a stove-pipe, and has removablearms; and its nature consists in the novel means employed to hold thet-wo parts together, and in providing a rim for supporting the lugswhich hold the arms in place.

AB represent a two-part collar, which is supported by circular rims H,and which supports a series of ings,

D E, placed such distances apart as to receive a series of arms I', andsupported at their outer ends by means of rimsC. Y y

These rims support the under parts of the arms I, as shown at gs. 1 and4, and the flanges m support their upper parts, at their inner ends. Thearms P being notched out at the places where they bear on the rims C,are so held in place as not to be detached 'unless their outer ends areraised up.

The joint G F consists simply of two hooks, having a depth dorrespondingto the width of the rims H,- and fastening loosely into each other, inorder that the parts A B may be connected after they are placed upon thepipe \V. 4

The device for clamping the parts A Bftogether consists of a rod, K,provided with hooks at each end, which pass through diverging slots J J,figs. I and 2, and clamp the parts clofspelyjothe pipe, as they aremoved outwardtoward the rims C, one of the slots being enlarged at I,tig. 2, to allow the rod K to pass through.

The means for holding the parts A B to the pipe are very substantial,and readily allow the device to be removed when it is not required foruse.

Having thus described my invention, j

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

In the construction of detachable stove-pipe clothesdriers, the two-partclamp A B, provided lwith an interlocking joint, or hinge, F G, a rim,C, slots J I, in combination with rod K and arms P, as and for thepurpose specified.

' c HIRAM \VHITNEY. [L. 5.] W'it'nesses:

GEO.' F. GLAsnR,

J. EBENMNG.

